ACCUTE members will be immeasurably saddened by the passing, on Thursday May 8^th, of  Renate Eigenbrod, Professor of Aboriginal Literatures and Head of Native Studies at the University of Manitoba.  Long-standing member of our association, passionate researcher and teacher of Aboriginal literatures and cultures in Canada, a constant participant at Congress, Renate Eigenbrod was also a compellingly enabling mentor to a generation of new scholars, a devoted friend to many in the national and international academic community, and a committed activist for Aboriginal recognition, equity, and inclusion in Canada.  She was a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for our scholarly journal English Studies in Canada, and one of her recent essays – “’For the child taken, for the parent left behind’:  Residential School Narratives as Acts of ‘Survivance’” – appeared in the December 2012 ESC special issue on “Childhood and its Discontents”.  A longer notice will appear in ESC in a forthcoming issue.